. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . tiij. fn/ GJOoboum k i. t \ Mmdrn TiMitlM JJ,::-,:,^,; ? />// 6Jtolnni:>? APPENDIX. *3 the origin of the tree which they called Sana, nor the gum,could allow me to doubt a moment that it was the fame aswhat had been brought to me from the myrrh country, butIhadthe additionaljfatisfacliontofindthe tree all covered overwith beautiful crimfon flowers of a very extraordinary andilrange conftruction. I began then a drawing anew, withall that fatisfaction known only to thofe wr
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . tiij. fn/ GJOoboum k i. t \ Mmdrn TiMitlM JJ,::-,:,^,; ? />// 6Jtolnni:>? APPENDIX. *3 the origin of the tree which they called Sana, nor the gum,could allow me to doubt a moment that it was the fame aswhat had been brought to me from the myrrh country, butIhadthe additionaljfatisfacliontofindthe tree all covered overwith beautiful crimfon flowers of a very extraordinary andilrange conftruction. I began then a drawing anew, withall that fatisfaction known only to thofe wrho have been con-verfant in fuch difcoveries. I took pieces of the gum with me ; it is very light. Ga-len complains that, in his time, the myrrh was often mixedwith a drug which he calls Opocalpafum, by a Greek name,but what the drug was is totally unknown to us at thisday, as nothing fimilar to the Greek name is found in the language of the country. But as the only view of the fa- * vage, in mixing another gum with his myrrh, muff havebeen to increafe the quantity, and as the great plenty inwhich this gum is produc
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